Matt and Trey My Heroes

Another UDLS by Ben Jones November 1, 2013

Why I love Matt and Trey

Trey

• Denver/Conifer native

• Became involved in musical theater in teen years

• Majored in music/Japanese at CU

Matt

• Grew up in Littleton, CO

• Majored in Film/Math at CU

Jesus vs Frosty

• Made while students at CU

• Introduces primitive/slightly different versions of “the boys” from SP

• Made with construction paper, glue and a camera

Jesus vs Santa

• Fox executive loved Jesus vs Frosty

• Paid Matt/Trey $2k to make a video to send out as Christmas card

• A Comedy Central exec saw it and had them develop a show

• That show was...

South Park

• Started on air in 1997

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfD8p6Qods8

6 days to Air

• South Park starts production on Thursday

• The show is produced entirely (writing, animation, etc) in 6 days

• Let me repeat that. They do a whole 23 minute cartoon in 6 days

• Watch the special “6 days to air”

• It’s awesome

Controversy

• Initially, people were bothered by 3rd graders swearing a lot

• And talking feces

• And other gross/shock value type stuff

• 2 handicapped kids fighting for ~5 minutes uninterrupted minutes

• These days, controversy arises from things like

• Calling Scientology a cult

• 3rd graders to going to “gay therapy camp”

Butters

Bigger Longer Uncut

•Barely got an “R” rating, was slated to be NC-17 •Fuck appeared 146 times •6th greatest animated movie of all time, according to Time Magazine •Won MTV for best song “Uncle Fucka” •Features

•Satan •Saddam Hussein •Anti-Canadianism

The Oscars

Orgazmo

• Mormon missionary going door to door

• Finds himself on the set of a porno

• Hilarity insues

Team America: World Police

• Came out during 2004, the ramp up of “the war on terror”

• Trey wanted to make a musical

• They hated actors, so they did it with marionettes

• America, Fuck Yeah

The Book of Mormon

• Matt and Trey’s Broadway musical

• A Mormon missionary finds out that instead of eldering in ORLANDO!!! he’s sent to GHANA

• It’s awesome (won 9 Tonys and a Grammy)

• It’s on tour (not through SLC), go see it if you have the means

Common themes

• Adults are stupid (particularly on South Park)

• Mormons are friendly but have wacky, demonstrably untrue beliefs

• If you do something dumb, you’re fair game

• Liberal or Conservative

• Catholic, Scientologist, Mormon, Jewish

• Towel or not

• Oprah or Angelina Jolie

The future

• South Park under contract through 2016

• The last episode a season or 2 ago kind of hinted they were gonna hang it up.... but they didn’t

Parting words

“I stole the head off a statue once”“Wow, that’s pretty hardcore.

Geez. That’s like this one time,

when I didn’t like a kid, so I ground his parents up into

chili and fed it to him.”